KPFT Listeners?

what station is that?

 

90.1 FM.

The people that work there are mostly cool. I've been on a show called Living Art that airs Fridays a couple of times. I might be on again on 4/25. You all know what a liberal I am, but the political shows turn me off. Leftie version of silly rightwing talk radio. But a good mix of music you won't hear elsewhere and the occasional Batman Jones interview, so it's not all bad.

 

I listen to KPFT all the time. I like the talk shows like Democracy Now (not that I always agree with everything they say, but it's an interesting show), but I particularly love the music programming. Such excellent diversity! At least 1/3 of the CDs I have purchased have been of artists I've heard on KPFT.

I listen to almost every show. I'll listen to it whenever it's on. My particular favorites are the Blues and Bluegrass programming on the weekend, the Reggae show and Dead Air. I like pretty much everything though. The only shows I really never listen to are Monday evening's gay and lesbian show, Night Sounds, Soular Grooves, and a lot of the other night shows. Not that I have anything against any of them, it just doesn't really interest me at all. For some reason, when I'm in the car on Friday nights, I'll check out the Prison show. I think it provides an interesting perspective on prisoners that I typically don't think about.

 

A little too left wing for me but you're right. The music shows are very good. My band has done many an "in studio" for a show called Sound Awake. It's a local music show very late Wednesday night/Thursday mornings. The only station in town that gives a rats a$$ about local un-signed bands.

 

yeah, the prison show is great. Just kidding batman

 

I agree with everything else you posted, but this above isn't altogether true. 91.7 KTRU has a great local show every Tuesday night hosted by Justin Crane. I think it's on 7 - 9. They also play local stuff regularly, mixed in with everything else. Check their website for set lists (I think it's www.ktru.org).

By the way, what band are you in? Same question to you, firecat.

Thanks for the eyeroll, wowming. You know how much I like that. The Prison Show is pretty good. Haven't heard it in a while. Is Ray Hill still hosting? I like that guy.

 

I'm a KPFT listener and supporter. I usually listen on Saturdays, Friday night for the Prison Show, and all day for the blues on Sunday. Sunday on KPFT is as good as music on the radio in Houston gets.

 

One of my coworkers does the Country show on that station.

 

"PFT" is a fart noise.

 

Good point, I forgot about KTRU.

The band I mentioned before wasn't paying the bills (understatement) so I $old out and joined this band.

www.infinitegroove.net

 

I quit listening and supporting when Pacifica took over.

The focus stopped being about the music and started being about pushing left wing propaganda. No thanks. (for the record I don't listen to stations that push right wing propaganda either)

 

KPFT has been a Pacifica station since its inception in 1970.
http://www.kpft.org/aboutkpft/history.htm

I listen to it a lot at work. even if you don't agree with their shows, the hosts are always fair and polite when it comes to opposing views. Callers are almost never cut off and are treated with respect unlike most of the AM talk shows, where the emphasis is on the hosts' opinions not the listeners'.

and the gay radio shows they have on KPFT were a huge help to me when I was in high school. this was in my pre-internet days and just knowing that there were other people like me in houston helped me to accept me for who I am.

 

Let me clairify... I quit listening and supporting about a year and a half ago when the "format" changed. They can say it didn't, but it did. It quit being about the "sound of Texas" and started being about "the voice of the oppressed" (which apparently is everyone but middle class straight white males). I remember being at a "give us back our station" rally at Garden in the Heights where the ex-program director and a number of the dj's were as well as a number of disappointed listeners like myself came to express our displeasure with the format change.

No big deal, I know how to stop supporting and stop listening, which I did.

Glad their alternative lifestyle programing helped you through what was obviously a tough time in your life. I'm sure it has helped countless others also. Me, I liked the station for the Texas music and I miss the station I supported.

 

Actually, I know exactly the change you are talking about. Prior to 9/11, the station was much like it is now -- BBC news and Democracy Now. The day after 9/11, the format DID change to what you had listened to. They dropped BBC and Democracy Now, they had some World Free News or something like that instead. A lot of the talk shows were dropped. Then a year or so ago, Democracy Now returned, as did BBC News. It turned back into what it was previously.